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From: Nancegar at aol.com <Nancegar>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 07:45:25 EST
Perhaps one reason why books about orphans are so popular is that most children fear losing their parents. And orphans in books frequently have a special independence that "parented" children don't have. Many have to struggle to find some kind of family substitute or even to survive -- I'm reminded especially of Liza Ketchum's ORPHAN JOURNEY HOME, but of course the tradition goes way, way back -- Dickens -- even Alcott, whose orphans or near-orphans in LITTLE MEN find a special alternative "family" at Plumfield.
Nancy Garden
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Received on Fri 15 Nov 2002 06:45:25 AM CST
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 07:45:25 EST
Perhaps one reason why books about orphans are so popular is that most children fear losing their parents. And orphans in books frequently have a special independence that "parented" children don't have. Many have to struggle to find some kind of family substitute or even to survive -- I'm reminded especially of Liza Ketchum's ORPHAN JOURNEY HOME, but of course the tradition goes way, way back -- Dickens -- even Alcott, whose orphans or near-orphans in LITTLE MEN find a special alternative "family" at Plumfield.
Nancy Garden
__________________________________________ Please visit my website at www.nancygarden.com Installment Number 8 of Budding Writers is up!
Received on Fri 15 Nov 2002 06:45:25 AM CST
